Someone's going to have to explain to me how that last Chelski goal wasn't offside.  It's entirely possible that 
Chelski would have scored anyway, but what an awful way to lose that game.

As an aside, it was kind of interesting how all of Newcastle's 2nd half momentum ended the second Owen was 
brought on.

Wayne

Wayne wrote:
> Someone's going to have to explain to me how that last Chelski goal wasn't offside.  It's entirely possible that 
> Chelski would have scored anyway, but what an awful way to lose that game.

At one point I thought the linesman had been bought off... shocking decision

> 
> As an aside, it was kind of interesting how all of Newcastle's 2nd half momentum ended the second Owen was 
> brought on.

I can't understand why we kept going deeper and deeper to defend, once 
we scored I thought we could have done it.

But that only seemed to happen when N'Zogbia was pushed up the wing and 
Rozenhal came on as left back.... I would have understood the sub of 
Martins if he was injured or he had ran himself into the ground, he was 
fresh. To bring Owen on and to leave him up there on his own was a joke, 
they went back to hitting long balls up to him... WHY?

Overall we should have had a point but these days when lucks against you 
it never goes for you.

Beye solid once again.

One other thing, I would have brought Emre on for Faye, he was treading 
water for about the last 15 minutes.

On 29 Dec 2007 17:02:33 GMT, Wayne  wrote:

>Someone's going to have to explain to me how that last Chelski goal wasn't offside.  It's entirely possible that 
>Chelski would have scored anyway, but what an awful way to lose that game.
>
>As an aside, it was kind of interesting how all of Newcastle's 2nd half momentum ended the second Owen was 
>brought on.
>
>Wayne

actually it ended when smith went off, which was a stupid decision
imo.

there was no need for big sam to bring on rozenhal, even rozenhal
didnt seem too sure where he was meant to be playing when he came on.

we'd just had a glorious chance to score, and were the dominant team
at the time, so what does sam do, take off a bloody attacker.

christ almighty.

best we've played since arsenal, and you have to wonder how the team
can play like this against the big clubs, yet be so utterly fucking
dreadful against the minnows.

something's not quite right there.

On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 17:54:20 +0000, BrIan
 wrote:

>Wayne wrote:
>> Someone's going to have to explain to me how that last Chelski goal wasn't offside.  It's entirely possible that 
>> Chelski would have scored anyway, but what an awful way to lose that game.
>
>At one point I thought the linesman had been bought off... shocking decision
>
>> 
>> As an aside, it was kind of interesting how all of Newcastle's 2nd half momentum ended the second Owen was 
>> brought on.
>
>I can't understand why we kept going deeper and deeper to defend, once 
>we scored I thought we could have done it.
>
we could have, but we went deeper because that was obviously the
instructions from the bench.

they say the best form of defence is attack, but sam doesnt seem
convinced by that, and the minute he took smith off for rozenhal i got
a feeling we'd lose.

didn't expect to lose the way we did mind, which was a shocking,
shocking call from the linesman, who should be suspended from the
league after allowing that goal.

utter nonsense.

>But that only seemed to happen when N'Zogbia was pushed up the wing and 
>Rozenhal came on as left back.... I would have understood the sub of 
>Martins if he was injured or he had ran himself into the ground, he was 
>fresh. To bring Owen on and to leave him up there on his own was a joke, 
>they went back to hitting long balls up to him... WHY?
>
but rozenhal only went to left back when duff went off for viduka
after their 2nd. before then, he seemed to float around between
midfield and defence without really a clue where he was meant to be.

>Overall we should have had a point but these days when lucks against you 
>it never goes for you.
>
>Beye solid once again.
>
>One other thing, I would have brought Emre on for Faye, he was treading 
>water for about the last 15 minutes.

aye, when he took that bang around the 70 minute mark he looked
uncomfortable.

nutting alan smith probably didnt help much either ;)